Female SW collectors

Female Star Wars collector, here!
I only got into Star Wars this year, so I don't have that much stuff yet. I'm hoping to get more stuff for Christmas so I can add to my small collection. All the same, I love my Emperor Stitch, and Darth Vader toys.

I just gave in to my basest desires and bought the Sideshow 1/6th scale Gree. *sigh*
I seriously thought about going for Ganch instead, but as a redhead, Gree is the perfect addition to my Sideshow Rex and Cody. The biggest drawback is that we'll have to live on breadcrumbs and water for a while ...

I haven't been a part of the collecting community for many years. I used to be one of those people who picked up every action figure I could get my hands on, but that has since waned. Most of my collection is now in plastic tubs and I can't really remember the last time I even bought a figure (with the exception of anything Han Solo ). I thought my collecting days were done. Well, I was wrong.

I got the collecting bug once more and this time, it's not for action figures, but rather, autographs. I'm not sure if we have any other autograph collectors on here, but it would be cool to be able to talk to others about it and maybe share some tips and other advice (I'm still a newbie at this! ). My collection is still fairly small, but here are the signatures I have so far: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Billy Dee Williams, Peter Mayhew (x2), David Prowse and Ray Park.

Wow you've got Harrison's that cool! I have a pretty extensive sci-fi stars autograph collection that's really started thanks to so many stars coming to my local con and not charging tons for signatures.

March if all goes well I'll be adding Carrie Fisher to my list at Emerald City Con (and get Ray Park to sign a Maul piece for me) and Sam Witwer will be at my local Phoenix Comic Con - I've got an awesome Maul photo for him to sign.

That's awesome! And I'm glad to see I'm not the only one! It seems as if you have quite a collection yourself!

The Ford was one thing I thought I would never have, but never say never!

I saw you started another thread for autograph hunters, so I'll refrain from posting images here and I'll do so in the new thread. I just need some time to scan everything in and organize. Expect a post sometime later!

I want to get into autograph collecting, but some of the people I want to get autographs from haven't made the trip across the pond (Catherine Munro, I am looking at you) to somewhere that would be financially feasible to get to.

So this past week something interesting was announced, Disney has given over their $500 million dollar Princess toy line from Mattel to Hasbro. (I also have to add - poor Mattel - they really are going to be floundering after losing this, they're going to have to work really hard to come up w/ something to replace this.) I've sold Disney Princess dolls for years on the secondary market and I have to say that the Hasbro dolls are CUTE! This was a major shock to me when I read it because Hasbro certainly has never been known for doing much for girls other than the occasional baby doll, etc.

This is giving me hope, if their Princess dolls have nice bodies and are good quality, we could be seeing a new Star Wars girls line of dolls coming. The D23 Leia doll was a massive hit, but oh so limited at only 450 dolls. People are screaming for more. Disney has gotten so much crap ever since they took over Star Wars for not having Leia (and now Rey) dolls for girls, that I can see them working on cranking out a new line.

I might have to pick up a new Princess to check her out once they start hitting the stores. This has gotten me very excited.

The only con that I can readily see is that the Hasbro heads are enormous on the dolls. Hopefully they can figure out how to shrink them if they do create a Star Wars line.

My fiancé isn't huge into collecting Star Wars stuff. She usually helps me with my collection. However, she's REALLY big on Phasma, and has been getting into Rey and Kylo. Those two may have increased her fandom. I bought her a few things already for her birthday in a couple weeks.

I can't wait to see what happens with the Hasbro 12" dolls what with them having taken over Mattel's Princess toy line. I have ALL the Padme', Amidala, and Leia 12" dolls from 1999, and the AOTC Arena Padme', and ROTS Barriss Offee and Shaak Ti as well

I can't wait to see what happens with the Hasbro 12" dolls what with them having taken over Mattel's Princess toy line. I have ALL the Padme', Amidala, and Leia 12" dolls from 1999, and the AOTC Arena Padme', and ROTS Barriss Offee and Shaak Ti as well

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I think if we really want it to happen, we need to get a giant social media campaign going that seems to actually get Hasbro's attention. The outcry that Rey wasn't in the Monopoly game was loud enough that they're launching a second wave of it w/ her in it.

Female characters are sorely under-represented in merchandising. Yes, over the almost 40 years there are a lot of Leia toys, but when you compare the Leias to Darth Vaders, or Yodas, or Luke Skywalkers that have been made in the same time span, her merchandise is FAR less. Hasbro actually did a great job of keeping at least some female characters in their 12" line. We finally got a 12" Hoth Leia because of them. Poor Padme completely got the shaft for merchandise.

Rey at least is getting lifted up because of the overall outcry from parents. We have a 20" Rey figure coming to go w/ the 20" Phasmas and other figures and Hasbro has a 12" version of their smaller figures coming. The problem is that there's no play quality in between merchandise you go from $10 for Hasbro's 12" figure to $225 for Hot Toys.

Yes, Hasbro has the Disney Princess line, the question is will that translate to them thinking of doing Star Wars dolls? I don't know. They probably don't understand the size of the demand that's out there.

I agree wholeheartedly. Definitely need more from our toy companies in the female area of Star Wars. my son just ordered Anakin's/Luke's lightsaber from Ultrasaber and he very kindly said when his sister gets her Rey costume ready for show she can use the lightsaber but it is still his. I love that now Anakin and Luke's lightsaber belongs to a girl.

I agree wholeheartedly. Definitely need more from our toy companies in the female area of Star Wars. my son just ordered Anakin's/Luke's lightsaber from Ultrasaber and he very kindly said when his sister gets her Rey costume ready for show she can use the lightsaber but it is still his. I love that now Anakin and Luke's lightsaber belongs to a girl.

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I know that's a nice twist for the mythos. It's also convenient because that is easy for girls to find an Anakin/Luke lightsaber to use for cos-play purposes.